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Date:      Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:05:08 -0800
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        steven@mailer3.nospam.homeip.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox printing
Message-ID:  <4d741324.KAhcvV0fHE0Ta8/T%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <201103060920.53610.steven@bsd-q1.nospam.homeip.net>
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steven@mailer3.nospam.homeip.net wrote:

> With FreeBSD 8.2R and Firefox 3.6.13:
>
> When printing postscript to file (or PDF, and actual printers too),
> the font and spacing of text is incorrect and does not look good.
> When I do the same on Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get clear
> output.
...
>  have included test-bad.ps to illustrate the difference,

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Based only on the description, I suspect Firefox is using different
fonts on the two systems.  That's about as far as I can go with my
limited knowledge of Firefox text rendering, but others may have
suggestions re how to go about fixing this.



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